Newton County (Arkansas) Veterans Service Office

What it is. An Arkansas county veterans service officer is employed by the county judge and paid from the Quorum Court's budget, trained and accredited through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and partly reimbursed by the State under section 20-81-106: one dollar for every two the county spends, up to $3,600 a year, or $4,800 in a county with more than 2,500 veterans, plus $500 a quarter each for VA accreditation and for access to VA's benefits system; see the Arkansas entry on the Department and county service officers. Help with a claim is free. Who and when. The Department of Veterans Affairs' county finder (last updated August 19, 2026) lists Gerald Lamb at 610 Court St., Jasper, AR 72641, (870) 577-5266, [email protected], Tuesday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The county has no website to compare. The Newton County Times reported that he organized the county's Veterans Day program at Bradley Park in Jasper in November 2023. Newton is in the Department's District 2, whose District Veterans Service Officer is Edward Skelton in the Fort Smith courthouse, (479) 387-6610. The Quorum Court. No minutes or budget are posted online, so the office's appropriation is not published. The veterans court. None: the Fourteenth Circuit's plan for 2026 names an adult drug court, sitting in Mountain Home and Harrison and open to residents of all four counties, but no veterans court, and the Judiciary's veterans treatment court map does not shade Newton.